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Unit 9 Mind Map (North Indian Classical Music (Ch. 30 Pg. 172) (Ravi …

- - - - Raga: series of pitches, projects mood, time of day
      - Pitches for organized melody
      - Ascent sequences- aroha
      - Descent sequences- avaroha
      - Other characteristics-
        
        Vadi- most important note
        
        Samavadi- 2nd most important note
        
        Pakad- essence of musical phrase
      - Played on sitar
        
        Long-neck plucked string instrument with metal strings & gourd resonator
      - Tala
        
        complex rhythmic cycle; translation- clap
        
        Tabla or Pakhawaj- Hand drums
      - Drone
        
        form of harmony; striking of strings that sustain pitches
        
        Tanpura- long-necked, plucked ; string instrument
        
        Shruti box- bellows drone; electronic today
        
        Swarmandal- Indian harp
  - - - Influence Indian Music 60s/70s
      - Performed at woodstock
- - - - Dance drama
      - Lots of style, makeup and costumes
- - - - Traditional Operas were banned
      - Bejing opera revival
      - 8 approved as “model plays”
    - - Leader- Mao Zedong
      - Purge China of class-structured society
      - West = Enemy
- - - - instigated a government-sponsored program to promote national music
  - - - • Evocative of mariachi ensembles
      - Folk-like melodies
- - - - Sculptor Richmond Barthé
      - Poet Langston Hughes
      - Poet Zora Neale Hurston
      - Duke Ellington, William Grant Still
    - - Arkansas
      - Studied Violin
      - Memphis to New York
      - Studied composition with Varèse
      - Opened Range of Opportunities for African American Musicians
      - 1st Symphony
        
        Afro-American Symphony (1931)
        
        African American composer to be
        performed by major American orchestra
    - - 1943
      - Movements based off
        different artwork by African American artists
      - I- Barthe’s African Dancer
        II- Johnson’s Mother & Child
        III- Savage’s Gamin
    - - Non Concert Traditions
      - Music from all over country
    - - Connecticut
      - Church Oranist
      - Composition at yale
      - Composed in Spare time
      - Experimantal
      - Country band March
        
        1903
        
        March for wind band
        
        Mesh of tunes
        
        Harshly dissonant
        
        Polytonal
    - - NY.
      - Studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger
      - Changed directions to populist styles
      - Ballets and Film Scores
      - Investigated as communist supporter
      - Rooted in different types of American Folk Melodies
    - - Seven Sections
      - 1945
      - Pioneer celebration
      - Section 1
        
        Opening section
        
        Evokes daybreak
        
        Slow and tranquil
      - Section 7
        
        Shaker song
        
        Majestic Closing
        
        Changing tones colors,and instruments